videlicet
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No one can peruse this ancient literature without seeing clearly the genesis of the Irish gods, videlicet heroes, passing, through the imagination and through the region of poetic representation, into the world of the supernatural.
From Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady
So Euclide, at the 1. d. ij. saith, that a rightangled parallelogramme is comprehended of two right lines perpendicular one to another, videlicet one multiplied by the other.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
"Appetiva le rape," says his good son; videlicet, he was fond of turnips.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
After many tossing thoughts he fell upon the knack of it, videlicet, that it was a heiroglyphick diamant faux, and that it behoved to be read thus, Tell, false lover, why hast thou forsaken me.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
I can make you acquainted with many others of a similar tendency as mis-conception; videlicet, mis-apprehension, mis-understanding, mis-contriving mis-applying, mis—” “Dear me, what a many misses,” cried Mary, “and do you know them all?”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
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